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(No Model.)

W. P. BATH.

REGISTERING AND INDIGATING DEVICE FOR MINES, &o.

No. 412,686. Patented Oct. 8, 1889.

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WILLIAM F. BATH, OF INARDNER, IDAHO TERRITORY.

REGISTERING AND INDICATING DEVICE FOR MINES, 80C.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 412,586, dated October8, 1889.

Application filed July 3, 1889, Serial No. 316,411. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. BATH, a citizen of the United States,residing at \Vardner, in the county of Shoshone and Territory of Idaho,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering andIndicat-ing Devices for Mines and other-Purposes; and I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains tomake and use the same.

It is the object of my invention to produce a registering device ofsimplified and inexpensive character, by which the number of cars,cages, or buckets which are run out or hoisted from a mine may beaccurately registered.

A further feature of my invention consists in means, combined with theregistering device, when applied to a cage orbucket which is withdrawnfrom the mine by hoisting, for accurately denoting the position of thecage in the shaft.

Vith such objects in View my invention consists in certain parts andcombinations thereof hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

In order to make my invention more clearly understood, I have shown inthe accompanying drawings means for carrying the same into practicaleifect.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of an apparatus embodying myinvention applied to the registering of cars moving upon a horizontal orinclined track. Fig. 2 is a similar View showing my improved registeringmechanism as applied to the registering of the passage of cages orbuckets in a vertical shaft, and combining, also, means whereby theposition of the cage in the shaftis signaled.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a dial register, comprising adial suitably divided into numbered spaces, a hand 9', mounted upon ashaft 9 concentric with the dial, a large gear-wheel h, fixed upon andadapted to actuate the shaft 9, a countershaft z' and small pinion hthereon, meshing with gear 71,, and a ratchet-whee1 j, fixed on saidcounter-shaft.

K is a springarm fixed to the register frame or case and hearing at itsfree end upon the ratchet-wheel j, so as to prevent its backwardmovement.

f is a reciprocating bar or .dog engaging by its free end the ratchet j,and pivotally mounted at its other end upon a verticallyoscillating armof a bell-crank lever e. e is a stop or pin which limits the backward ordownward movement of said lever. The other arm of said lever, whichoscillates horizontally, or substantially so, is connected by a link cwith the upwardly-extending arm of a substantially vertical lever d,which is mounted upon the fixed pivot or axis cl.

0 is a link or connecting-rod pivoted to the lower arm of lever d andextending horizontally therefrom. This link is formed with ahorizontallyextending slot 0', in which is mounted a transverse pin acarried by an arm a The latter is fixed to a horizontal rock-shaft a,which is also provided with an upwardly-extending arm a. A weight 19,secured upon one side of the rock-shaft or other suitable device, tendsconstantly to turn said shaft in such direction as to keep pin a in andagainst one end of slot 0.

As seen in Fig. 1, T indicates a track or rail upon which the car (notshown) travels as it leaves the mine in the direction indicated by arrow2. Such car will be provided with a projection or arm of any suitablecharacter adapted to strike and depress arm a as the car moves along thetrack. If the car be moving from the mine-11 a, in the direction ofarrow 2-the depression of arm a, will rock the shaft to, oscillate arm acause pin a to draw link 0 to the left, (of the drawings,) oscillatelever (I, draw link 2 to the right, oscillate lever e, and force dog fupward. The latter, being kept in engagement with ratchet j by thespring 76, will cause the ratchet to turn one tooth, and theregistering-hand g, through mechanism already described, to advance onespace upon the dial, indicating that one car has passed out. As soon asthe car has passed, the gravitating effect of the dogf and horizontalarm of lever 6, one or both of which parts are made heavy for thepurpose, causes the other lever and rockshaft 0, to resume their normal.positions.

When a car returns in the direction indicated by arrowl, arm av will bedepressed; but in this case the pin a traveling in slot 0, will meetwith no resistance, and lever d, and consequently the dog f, will not bedisturbed.

Referring to Fig. 2, L indicates a drum adapted to wind up a rope Z,which passes over a pulley Z, and down the shaft M. to a cage or bucket.(Not shown.) Upon an extension of the axis of drum L is formed ormounted a small spindle N, upon which is secured and adapted to be woundup a cord 07.. Said cord passes over pulleys n to a weight 0, mounted orheld in guides 0. Said weight is situated beneath the arm a of themechanism already described, the arm in this case being inclined at anangle or arranged horizontally instead of being vertical, as in Fig. 1.The winding up of the cage by the drum L and rope Z thus is accompaniedby a winding up of cord n, (though more slowly and through less space,)which raises the weight 0 and causes it to actuate arm at and turn thehand of register A one space,in' a manner already described. Upon thedescent of the bucket or cage and of weight 0 the latter will oscillatearm a without affecting the register. At one side of the Weight 0, uponone of its guide-rails or other suitable surface, is marked a scale ofspaces or characters indicating the diiferent levels of the mine whichcommunicate with shaft M, or subdivided and numbered to show depths infeet. As the weight 0 approaches and passes these marks or numbers thesituation of the cage relative to the difierent levels, or to the bottomor to the top, orits depth in the shaft, is indicated and ascertained bya glance. Such indicator and register will be 1 placed in the oflice ofthe superintendent or engine-room, or both, as may be desired.

It will be understood that my improvements may be. employed in othersituations and for other purposes to which they are adapted besidesthose which,for the purpose of explaining my invention, I have hereinillustrated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is '1. In a register,the combination, with the registering mechanism proper, of ahoistingdrum and a cord and weight connected and adapted to movetherewith, said weight having its path in proximity to and adapted toengage and operate a part connected with the registering mechanism,substantially as set forth.

2. In a combined register and indicator,

the combination, with the register proper, of a hoisting-drum, a cordand weight connected and adapted to move therewith, said-weight engaginga part connected with the registering mechanism, and a scale situated bythe path of the weight, substantially as set forth.

3. In a registering mechanism, the combination, with the registerproper, of a reciprocating and oscillating bar or dog f, a lever e,carrying the same, a rock-shaft a, adapted to be rocked by the movementof the object to be registered, an arm a on said shaft and provided witha pin a a connecting rod or link 0, having a slot engaged by said pin,and connections between said lever e and link, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM F. BATH.

Witnesses:

H. N. LOW, B. F. WoMsLEY.

